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...American President had already practiced saxophone diplomacy twice before on his trip: once when he accepted a gift sax during the NATO summit in Brussels and then at a jazz club in Prague. The Russians handed him a third opportunity. Midway through an "informal" 22-dish dinner that included moose lips ("This was not a chocolate dessert," joked an American official), Yeltsin gave the President a five-inch blue-and-white porcelain figure of Clinton, one hand waving and the other clutching a saxophone. Suddenly -- but to no one's surprise -- a real one appeared, and Clinton rose...
While preparing for the summit and the opening session of the new parliament, Boris Yeltsin responded to written questions from Moscow bureau chief, John Kohan. It is Yeltsin's first exclusive interview with an American publication since the collapse of the Soviet Union...
Though Clinton would rather not hear about Europe's major security failure at the NATO summit he has convened this week, the French government has decided to raise it. France, which has suffered the deaths of 18 soldiers and the wounding of 260 others in the past 18 months, was planning to ask the U.S. to back a proposal that would authorize the U.N. commander to call in air strikes by NATO planes. He would do this at his own initiative if he believed they were needed to protect peacekeepers from attack by the warring parties. "All we are trying...
Boris Yeltsin's government narrowly averted the embarrassment of a newspaper strike, which would have blacked out coverage of the summit. Angered by a directive that could raise the cost of paper and printing services as much as 600%, the editors of some of Moscow's most influential publications accused the government of trying to bankrupt the media and called for a strike during summit week. Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin summoned the rebellious journalists to his new office to remind them that they had championed the very market reforms that were pushing them into the red. They relented when Chernomyrdin...
After attending his mother's funeral in Arkansas, President Clinton proceeded with his first major European tour since taking office. He will attend a NATO summit meeting in Brussels during which he is expected to defend his plan that permits only very limited association with NATO for former Soviet-bloc countries. Clinton will also visit Moscow, where he will encourage Russian President Boris Yeltsin to carry on with his economic reforms but be more mindful of those who are suffering under them...